DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer | Defence Systems | Contract Location: Wiltshire, hybrid (1-2 days a week on site) Rate: £550 - 600 per day, Inside IR35 Start: ASAP Duration: 6 months Clearance: Active SC Clearance or higher The role This is a hands-on role in a mainly on-premises environment. The focus is automation: building out Dev, Test and Live environments, and the CI/CD pipelines that move software safely between them within a secure, controlled estate. Design and build Dev, Test and Live environments Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in on-prem GitLab Automate provisioning and configuration with Terraform and Ansible Run containerised workloads on Docker and Kubernetes Build DevSecOps practices in from the start: secure configuration, scanning, vulnerability, access and secrets management Set up monitoring, logging and alerting Troubleshoot deployments and support rollback, recovery and disaster recovery Produce the documentation and assurance evidence that secure delivery needs What you'll bring DevOps or platform engineering experience in defence, aerospace, government or another secure sector Strong on-premises infrastructure experience (this role is mainly on-prem, so a purely cloud background won't suit) A solid understanding of the security requirements that come with secure environments A track record of building CI/CD pipelines and multi-environment setups, ideally in GitLab Terraform, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes Scripting in Bash, Python or PowerShell Comfort working to…